Ecological Design Collective | Michele Minnick | Activity https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/members/vitalmatters/activity/ Activity feed for Michele Minnick. Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:30:25 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.15.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 595aa9696228702985f611b5abd19139 Michele Minnick posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=12709 Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:34:46 -0400
Mutual Aid Monday Midsummer Picnic: Story and Song Swap

Vital Matters’ Mutual Aid Mondays is a series of gatherings that launched on Inauguration Day, 2025, to connect with one another in nourishing and productive…

]]> 0 115dd52e201e634e4717418cd014e533 Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/global-water-dances-in-baltimore/2025-06-07/#comment-112 Thu, 29 May 2025 19:21:10 -0400 584b2bf9c9916d555443c37557f53d41 Michele Minnick posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=12470 Thu, 29 May 2025 19:18:52 -0400
Global Water Dances, in Baltimore

Global Water Dances Saturday June 7: 10am – 1pm Saturday June 14: 9:30am – 12pm Location: Herring Run Park Click here to sign up and…

]]> 1 78dae14270a5cf2bc228f9c54db73982 Michele Minnick posted an update: Please join us for the second Vital Matters Mutual […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6754/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:17:42 -0500 Please join us for the second Vital Matters Mutual Aid Monday on March 24th. We are very excited to be sharing the film Water is Love with Baltimore audiences. RSVP on Partiful.

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Vital Matters’ Mutual Aid Mondays is a series of gatherings that launched on Inauguration Day, 2025, to connect with one another in nourishing and productive ways, and to exchange ideas, resources, tenderness, and care for each other and the communities … Continue reading

]]> 0 0792a6c0f625a2a091b3d6cc5800d5d8 Michele Minnick posted an update: Please join us on Monday for this event. RSVP on Partiful […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6569/ Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:35:54 -0500 Please join us on Monday for this event. RSVP on Partiful o receive location and other information. https://partiful.com/e/Pg8kDee8xp3NCTjOGQV7

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Monday, Jan 20th is Martin Luther King Day AND Inauguration Day for #notmypresident#47– a bifurcation of reality that feels deeply symbolic for our time. These choices about what we celebrate, what we fight for, and simply what we give our … Continue reading

]]> 0 8ba4806d15d2b6a5d349e1c02d696a79 Michele Minnick posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=9390 Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:57:27 -0400 0 9215275b007337d9935f4bbc111090a2 Michele Minnick posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=9384 Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:53:32 -0400 0 24aa94e32999ce580ebc0a51e999c7f1 Michele Minnick posted an update: One Week from today! Please join us for this event […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6215/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:31:49 -0400 One Week from today! Please join us for this event at Creative Alliance on Thursday, Oct 17. Go here for more information and tickets: https://creativealliance.org/event/vital-matters-presents-a-queer-climate-cabaret/. It’s going to be a fun night with a lot of amazing artists, including special guest Eli Nixon, whose book Bloodtide was…

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]]> 0 e93f37cf5011a3cc8dafc133bb85c9db Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/community-farms-community-connections-an-edc-grounding-with-carissa-aoki/#comment-97 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:37:58 -0400 7426ecc0f5f9debd4edca487466fb463 Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/community-farms-community-connections-an-edc-grounding-with-carissa-aoki/#comment-95 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:18:00 -0400 f5593a238709e03fb232f101849397fb Michele Minnick posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=9222 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:45:06 -0400 0 b2b8470855aa9a81f9f9739c44089fc0 Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6145/#acomment-6146 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:33:55 -0400 Here is a link to an unedited interview we did with Jake, if you want to learn more about their perspective and their work, and what to expect on Saturday: https://youtu.be/-9hnTeh9iDM

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Dear all, we at Vital Matters are so excited to bring you the following events:

This Saturday, Sept 28, from 3-6 p.m. at Ivy Bookshop “Writing with the Elements, a[…]

]]> f16e2a45e72327af6f494184ad5b3a81 Michele Minnick posted an update: Dear all, we at Vital Matters are so excited to bring […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6145/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:27:10 -0400 Dear all, we at Vital Matters are so excited to bring you the following events:

This Saturday, Sept 28, from 3-6 p.m. at Ivy Bookshop “Writing with the Elements, a Generative Workshop” with award winning writer, multi-disciplinary performance artist, educator, and witch, Jacob Budenz. See flier for registration link, or go…

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]]> 1 53dccd4985517777efadff3c21d218dd Michele Minnick posted an update: The Vital Matters team is so excited to be offering a […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/5825/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 01:50:58 -0400 The Vital Matters team is so excited to be offering a series of public workshops exploring the relationship between climate, queerness and performance with Baltimore and D.C. artists from a range of disciplines, from dance to drag to visual and performance art. Join us for the first workshop in our Queer Climate series next Saturday, 3-6…

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]]> 1 9996800ef47e82914ffaad96cdbf0b46 Michele Minnick posted an update: Hi everyone! We are so excited for the Queer Climate […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4654/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:16:55 -0400 Hi everyone! We are so excited for the Queer Climate Cabaret we are putting together for October 17 at Creative Alliance. And there are opportunities coming up before then.

1. We are looking for a performing artist to create an original 10-15 minute piece responding to the climate crisis and the MD Climate Plan. MD Climate Partners has…

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around … Continue reading

]]> 0 5afcb467ce34aa38db7dfce1cd711e64 Michele Minnick posted an update: Hi all. Is anyone else receiving spam (someone looking for […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4614/ Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:43:36 -0400 Hi all. Is anyone else receiving spam (someone looking for a date with a man, in this case) via EDC or it it just me?

]]> 1 e841ee2f68da6101c688f82cc1962cd0 Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/edc-book-club-futures-after-progress-by-chloe-ahmann/#comment-82 Wed, 29 May 2024 14:18:05 -0400 65f80088be5ee166e1fdd3470b3d6e29 Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4372/#acomment-4377 Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:15:28 -0400 Here is link to eventbrite for Kids’ program: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whose-earth-day-childrens-event-tickets-866843330737

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Hi everyone! Please join Vital Matters for our Whose Earth (Day)? events at the Ivy Bookshop:

(and learn more about us at http://www.vitalmatters.net)

Sunday April 21st, BOTH[…]

]]> f47948f03be066f38da08d32647b34d4 Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4358/#acomment-4375 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:29:24 -0400 that is very cool.

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Leaves interpreting the eclipse…

]]> 153bf8f456730ce9b104c4702ed1372b Michele Minnick posted an update: Hi everyone! Please join Vital Matters for our Whose […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4372/ Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:26:50 -0400 Hi everyone! Please join Vital Matters for our Whose Earth (Day)? events at the Ivy Bookshop:

(and learn more about us at http://www.vitalmatters.net)

Sunday April 21st, BOTH EVENTS ARE FREE

For kids and the whole family: Songs for Superheroes with Mama Ama Circle Time (Sanahara Ama Chandra), 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

A concert and singalong and featuring…

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Books for the Future: Whose Earth (Day)?

Join us for a discussion of Butler’s Parable books (published in the 90s) which begin in 2024 and explore our climate crisis & rebuilding!

]]> 1 de1cf9208cf3a4cf7fc5583a953f9ed7 Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3665/#acomment-3673 Fri, 01 Dec 2023 02:32:40 -0500 This was so fun! Thanks for gathering us.

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So exciting (and a little jealous) to see these photos from our Thoughtful Thursday Tide Pool Social at[…]

]]> eb7bff02f1797e3de95d3377da88bf1f Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3577/#acomment-3610 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:55:25 -0500 Of course! 🙂 — art (theatre/performance) but also activism, an engagement of local small businesses, urban farming, and much more…

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“Climate cookbooks seem to be picking up speed in parallel to a trend toward sustainable eating. In 2016, the term “climatarian” entered the Cambridge Dictionary — referring to a[…]

]]> fcc0aff76c862ba215d4a37936525c7c Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3577/#acomment-3608 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:14:24 -0500 interesting… this relates to a project i’m developing about food and climate…

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“Climate cookbooks seem to be picking up speed in parallel to a trend toward sustainable eating. In 2016, the term “climatarian” entered the Cambridge Dictionary — referring to a[…]

]]> 7ff10bc706fe5320287ec126cff9f8cf Michele Minnick posted an update: Two weeks from today, join us at Creative Alliance for […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3600/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 03:58:54 -0500 Two weeks from today, join us at Creative Alliance for what is shaping up to be an amazing, inspiring event! Hear plays from around the world, join in conversation with local and national environmental and climate partners, learn about actions you can participate in, and meet others who are passionate about the arts, the climate crisis,…

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Creative Alliance | All Good Things Must Begin!: Climate Change Theatre Action

Baltimore theatre artists, activists, and others are coming together to read 7 plays from 5 countries that will help us connect the dots between what is happening around climate and environmental justice globally and locally. Visual artist Maura Dwyer performs … Continue reading

]]> 0 2cc1b672e9f0a83b4a16c996e41ec774 Michele Minnick posted an update in the group ECO-ARTs: Hi. I'm a Baltimore-based artist, educator, […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3329/ Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:39:10 -0400 Hi. I’m a Baltimore-based artist, educator, somatic movement practitioner and producer/curator of interdisciplinary climate and environmental justice-related events.

My primary discipline is performance, which is by nature communal, participatory and embodied. One of the things I’m beginning to explore in Baltimore, in conversation with artists…

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]]> 1 d6c5b054f71a6ef400497584ccae7503 Michele Minnick posted an update: For folks in Baltimore: Tickets will be available soon […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3301/ Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:43:20 -0400 For folks in Baltimore: Tickets will be available soon for All Good Things Must Begin! A Climate Change Theatre Action event (www.climatechangetheatreaction.com). Mark your calendars and please join us. This is a great opportunity to meet folks doing work locally and globally related to climate change and related issues.

A recording of…

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]]> 3 bd80edafcbfc17f7dbaaf8546d18bfe7 Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3301/#acomment-3343 Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:35:45 -0400 Hi Susan! There are CCTA events happening around the country and around the world this fall, so you might be able to go to something in your area. You can start by going to climatechangetheatreaction.com — they tend to only put things up for the current month, and they keep updating the calendar.

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For folks in Baltimore: Tickets will be available soon for All Good Things Must Begin! A Climate Change Theatre Action event (www.climatechangetheatreaction.com). Mark[…]

]]> 318f5fc6021f3acfefdf9415e4f32d6f Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2110/#acomment-3338 Sat, 28 Oct 2023 15:34:00 -0400 Climate Change Theatre Action’s plays this year are inspired by Octavia Butler’s work. Join us on Dec 5th at Creative Alliance (the event is on the EDC calendar)! I’ll post a ticket link as soon as it’s available.

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Today is the birthday of visionary Black speculative fiction writer Octavia Butler, who passed on in 2006. Let’s celebrate her memory with favorite passages or moments from her[…]

]]> 17478e923436d8614e4e05b5f089e385 Michele Minnick replied to the discussion Welcome to the Climate Imaginarium! in the forum Climate Imaginarium https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/groups/climate-imaginarium/forum/discussion/welcome-to-the-climate-imaginarium/#post-5553 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 23:51:32 -0400 Reply to Welcome to the Climate Imaginarium!

Hi all. I’m Michele, and am an artist and producer making and curating art works (including theatre, performance art, dance, and visual art) that deal with climate change and environmental justice in different ways.

I’m very excited about the Imaginarium! Unfortunately, I’m unable to attend on Friday, as I teach during that time. I’m wondering if…

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]]> c819a9f95acb76da1f6ffec340d995da Michele Minnick posted a new event. https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/?p=5282 Fri, 06 Oct 2023 02:39:44 -0400
All Good Things Must Begin!

Tuesday, December 5th. Creative Alliance. Join the Vital Matters community for Climate Change Theatre Action 2023: All Good Things Must Begin! Doors open at 5:30…

]]> 0 0a82e7996472331df02f210005ccc73d Michele Minnick posted an update: Dear Baltimore folks:Please save the date, and join […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2493/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:36:41 -0400 Dear Baltimore folks:

Please save the date, and join Vital Matters for this event in December. Also, if you or someone you know might be interested involved in some way, including being a conversation partner for this or future events, please let me know. We are always looking to meet and work with activists, scientists, scholars and…

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]]> 0 12907f9815cf94ff917c862a387e61d9 Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2115/#acomment-2130 Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:29:17 -0400 I would have loved to have been there for this!

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We had another awesome Cherry Hill waterfront event with Black Yield Institute on Saturday–this time featuring bird biologist Eric Fishel. He caught and tagged a rare orchard[…]

]]> 8815963012b006451f203f032ac104b0 Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2110/#acomment-2129 Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:28:26 -0400 I am rereading the parable books as we speak. In the midst of Parable of the Talents, in the part before things get REALLY, REALLY, dark. This happens to be the beginning of the section I’m about to start, 2033:

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Today is the birthday of visionary Black speculative fiction writer Octavia Butler, who passed on in 2006. Let’s celebrate her memory with favorite passages or moments from her[…]

]]> 5b6a06dbbca73901602d669fefed1f62 Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2072/#acomment-2073 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:30:33 -0400 It was delightful to be in the park on such a lovely evening, and meet folks in person.

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Beautiful evening beside the lake today, thanks to everyone who came by, and most especially to Raychel for organizing!

]]> ecbd8605b873e0d8e1bd7d5ea9bdb14c Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/tide-pool-watch-party/#comment-39 Thu, 25 May 2023 03:25:06 -0400 75db83eb9488df9e2e352d08042b1ecc Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1940/#acomment-1946 Thu, 25 May 2023 03:13:37 -0400 Thank you, Anand! Yes, I hope we do have a meander along the Jones Falls at some point…

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Hello! I am delighted to join this group, at the suggestion of Xandi Egginton. I am a theatre and performance-maker, somatic movement educator, teaching artist, and event[…]

]]> 9afa42d743f9a6a333839acca71c6fc8 Michele Minnick posted a new activity comment https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1940/#acomment-1945 Thu, 25 May 2023 03:11:40 -0400 ❤

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Hello! I am delighted to join this group, at the suggestion of Xandi Egginton. I am a theatre and performance-maker, somatic movement educator, teaching artist, and event[…]

]]> e47270ea8d0b06afbbbc697b717f9353 Michele Minnick posted an update: Hello! I am delighted to join this group, at the […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1940/ Wed, 24 May 2023 16:59:59 -0400 Hello! I am delighted to join this group, at the suggestion of Xandi Egginton. I am a theatre and performance-maker, somatic movement educator, teaching artist, and event producer, with a PhD in performance studies. I specialize in an approach to performance called The Performance Workshop, and its embedded practice of Rasaboxes, originated…

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